Марина М. (User)Part3
Hey guys, welcome to Lingua Marina. Today we're going to talk about speaking English fast and understanding native speakers.
Native speakers speak in a way that is easy for them.
American English, for example, is really relaxed.
So if you want to sound like an American person, you really need to sit down and couch and just relax your jaw, relax your mouth, and relax your thoughts.
Because Americans like to admit words, they just throw them away from the phrase. They like to connect words together.
And if you learn the techniques that native speakers are using, and they don't necessarily think of them as techniques, this is just the way for them to simplify the language and to speak it faster.
So if you learn those techniques, you would be able to first understand native speakers and second use those techniques in your speech to sound more natural.
Today I'm going to talk about these techniques, and if you want to sound more natural, if you want to sound like a native speaker, continue watching this video up to the very end.
And I know a lot of you would tell me, Marina, but why should I sound like a native speaker? People still understand me, my accent is okay.
Yes, it is okay to maintain your accent. It is okay to maintain the way you speak, but in order to understand native speakers, you need those techniques.
And if you want to build more trust, for example, if you're like me, who wants to raise money in Silicon Valley, and you're talking to Silicon Valley investors, there are so many doubts about you.
Like, is your product going to explode? Is your company good? And then your accent? And then there are so many things that make people doubt you.
And eliminating your accent is one of those things would really help you in whatever you're going to do in English.
Thing number one that Americans people do is they cut off words. So for example, you can say, are you ready to go?
The shorter version would be, are you ready? But Americans would just say, you're ready?
And that's it. They would just emit R. Yes, it's grammatically incorrect. And yes, if you're writing an academic letter, if you're writing a personal statement, if you're taking a test, you would never ever do that.